1. search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by _tom (admin) Jul 30, 2010
- 1387 views
Shawn Pringle has created a table (more comprehensive than this version) to summarize the available search-replace routines in Euphoria. Derek Parnell then made an html variant. I have merely converted Derek's table into creole format so see how it will fit into to documentation.
This table looks like it should be added as a "miniguide" in the documentation. I am willing to turn this into an article. If anyone has some ideas, just give me a few hints or rough text, and I will finsh the work.
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Find-Replace table
| description | simple member | any member | slice | regular expression slice | wildcard |
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| Return first index to match | find() find_from() |
find_any() | match() match_from() |
re:find() | |
| Return all indexes to match | find_all() | find_each() | match_all() | re:match_all() | |
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| Split based on match | split() | split_any() | split() | re:split() | |
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| Replace match with supplied data | replace_all() | transmute() | replace_all() | re:find_replace() | |
| Replace match with supplied data to some limit | search:find_replace() | transmute() | search:match_replace() | re:replace() re:find_replace_limit() |
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| Removing match | remove_item remove_all |
transmute() | |||
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| Indicate a match | equal() | match_any() | equal() | re:is_match | wildcard:is_match() |
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Notes:
- the wildcard syntax is much "friendlier" than "regex" syntax (but much less powerful)
- built-in routines shown with no namespace prefix
- routines from libraries are using a prefix
- include std/search.e as search
- include std/regex.e as re
- include std/wildcard.e as wildcard
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Some questions:
- would "element" be a better term than "memember" in this table? ( as in, we think in terms of elements of a sequence)
- can I assume that the speed advantage goes as: built-in (fastest), std/library, regular expression (slowest)
2. Re: search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by _tom (admin) Sep 17, 2010
- 1247 views
The following is a draft of what could be a "miniguide" for searching and replacing in the Euphoria documentation.
Comments are welcome!
Search Reminders
- needle in haystack
- element != slice
- find ---> element
- match ---> slice
search for element
| search | one needle |
multi needle |
nested haystack |
regex | return value |
include module |
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| indicate | equal | equal() | 0 or 1 | ||||
| rank | compare() | -1, 0, 1 | |||||
| locate | first | find() | first index | ||||
| find_any() | first index | std/search.e | |||||
| from | find_from() | first index -- after start location | |||||
| reverse | rfind() | first index -- start from right end | std/search.e | ||||
| all | find_all() | sequence of index values | |||||
| find_each() | sequence of index values | std/search.e | |||||
| find_nested() (*2) |
sequence (*3) |
std/search.e | |||||
| remove | one | remove() | shortened sequence | ||||
| all | remove_all() | shortened sequence | |||||
| replace | one | replace() | new sequence | ||||
| all | replace_all() | ||||||
| find_replace() | |||||||
| split | split() | sequence of elements | |||||
| split_any() | sequence of elements | ||||||
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| "needles" | 'a' | "aeiou" | |||||
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| (*1) regex see splice table |
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| (*2) flags for nested |
NESTED_ALL | std/search.e | |||||
| NESTED_ANY | |||||||
| NESTED_BACKWARD | |||||||
| NESTED_INDEXES | |||||||
| (*3) utility for nested |
valid_index() | 0 or 1 use sequence as index |
std/sequence.e | ||||
| fetch() | element use sequence as index |
std/sequence.e | |||||
| store() | new sequence use sequence as index |
std/sequence.e |
Note:
for the haystack sequence "hello" the following needles are:
'o' -- element "o" -- slice (a slice of length one //only sometimes// behaves like an element)
when searching the following haystack sequences:
"hello" -- an element is a character such as 'o'
{ "hello", "world" } -- an element is a string such as "hello"
While the std/regex.e module has functions that can search for any character (element) in a string; the Euphoria routines will be faster and may be easier to use.
Note:
The Euphoria "match" and regex "matches" are both about finding a slice in a sequence. But, a regex is specific to text searchs on a string.
A regex search is capable of returning two kinds of information. The regex:find() returns index values when a search succeeds. The regex:matches() returns the actual text when a search succeeds. Caution: the regex:find() is for slices, while the eu:find() is for elements.
A regex pattern may be written for a "multi-needle" search, or as a "single-needle" literal search. There is no need for special multi-needle regex functions.
search for slice
| search | one needle | multi-needle | nested haystack | regex | return value | include module | ||||
| index | text | |||||||||
| indicate | match_any() | 0 or 1 | std/search.e | |||||||
| is_match() | std/regex.e | |||||||||
| has_match() | std/regex.e | |||||||||
| locate | first | match() | first index | |||||||
| find() | first index pair | std/regex.e | ||||||||
| matches() | text | std/regex.e | ||||||||
| from | match_from() | first index -- after start | ||||||||
| find() | index pair | std/regex.e | ||||||||
| matches() | text | std/regex./e | ||||||||
| reverse | ||||||||||
| all | match_all() | sequence of index values | std/search.e | |||||||
| std/regex.e | ||||||||||
| all_matches() | std/regex.e | |||||||||
| remove | one | |||||||||
| all | ||||||||||
| replace | one | |||||||||
| match_replace() | ||||||||||
| find_replace() | std/regex.e | |||||||||
| find_replace_limit() | std/regex.e | |||||||||
| all | replace_all() | |||||||||
| find_replace() | ||||||||||
| split | split() | sequence of elements | ||||||||
| split() | std/regex.e | |||||||||
| split_limit() | std/regex.e |
Notes:
A regular expression must first be "compiled" into an internal format with new() before it can be used in regex functions.
3. Re: search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Oct 02, 2010
- 1106 views
The following is a draft of what could be a "miniguide" for searching and replacing in the Euphoria documentation.
Comments are welcome!
Can you put cell borders in that table? Would help with readability.
4. Re: search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by _tom (admin) Oct 02, 2010
- 1079 views
Can you put cell borders in that table? Would help with readability.
Good point, it bothers me also.
This creolecode...
|= A |= B | |test | TEST |
makes this table...
| A | B |
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| test | TEST |
I do not know how to make borders.
When making a pdf of the documentation, it is the same problem. I did learn that if I manually edit the html that goes into the htmldoc program, it is possible to make borders in the pdf version--but that is a lot of work.
5. Re: search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Oct 02, 2010
- 1075 views
Can you put cell borders in that table? Would help with readability.
Ok, I've played around with the table borders and colors. Let me know if it can still be improved some more.
6. Re: search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 02, 2010
- 1083 views
Can you put cell borders in that table? Would help with readability.
Ok, I've played around with the table borders and colors. Let me know if it can still be improved some more.
One thing I think we need to do is distinguish colors between visited and non-visited forum links. The star graphic is likely to work less and less (already doesn't work on Chrome).
Matt
7. Re: search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Oct 02, 2010
- 1037 views
Looking good. The blank rows could use some differentiation probably. If a user wants a blank row, let him specific somehow.
Putting a space in table cells causes this:
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
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| First row below 1st blank row | First row below 1st blank row |
| First row below 2nd blank row | First row below 2nd blank row |
Putting no spaces causes this:
||Header 1||Header 2|| ||| |First row below 1st blank row|First row below 1st blank row| ||| |First row below 2nd blank row|First row below 2nd blank row|
Could not display that table because it was crashing. Derek, if you edit or preview this message, remove the {{{}}} and you'll get the crash. :/
A causes this:
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
|---|---|
| &npsp; | &npsp; |
| First row below 1st blank row | First row below 1st blank row |
| &npsp; | &npsp; |
| First row below 2nd blank row | First row below 2nd blank row |
Oops! I don't know how to make a in creole markup. Is there a way to enter raw HTML?
8. Re: search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Oct 02, 2010
- 983 views
Putting no spaces causes this:
||Header 1||Header 2|| ||| |First row below 1st blank row|First row below 1st blank row| ||| |First row below 2nd blank row|First row below 2nd blank row|
Could not display that table because it was crashing. Derek, if you edit or preview this message, remove the {{{}}} and you'll get the crash. :/
I've just submitted a fixed creole that allows you to enter empty cells without having to use a blank between the bars.
A causes this:
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
|---|---|
| &npsp; | &npsp; |
| First row below 1st blank row | First row below 1st blank row |
| &npsp; | &npsp; |
| First row below 2nd blank row | First row below 2nd blank row |
Oops! I don't know how to make a in creole markup. Is there a way to enter raw HTML?
No. There is no way to enter raw HTML.
However, I've added a new markup code for creole. If you need a non-breaking space you can use a double ampersand. For example ...
this&&doesn't&&break
will display as "this doesn't break" with each word on the same line.
The upgrade to creole has just been submitted so it might take a little while to get to the web server.
9. Re: search-replace table (made by S.P and D.P)
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 02, 2010
- 1068 views
The upgrade to creole has just been submitted so it might take a little while to get to the web server.
I just updated it. But you have the same level of access as I and euphoric do, so there should be no reason for a delay. :P
